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 30th June 2020, 12:21 PM
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 BuzzJack Climber
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I was never abig cd single purchaser. When i was really young i bought 7 inch singles, but by the time cds had replaced vinyl i had moved onto albums. I havent bought anything as new for along time, bar the odd christmas purchase for other people. The last cd single i think may have been Band Aid 20, and the last album as new maybe Adele's 19.
Now i buy any cds on ebay second hand. Never desperate enough to buy when released usually happy to wait acouple of years to get it cheap. |
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30th June 2020, 01:06 PM
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The one and only CD single I've ever purchased was buying Spice Girls' 'Stop' which I bought second hand on Amazon in late 2018. And that was just as a present to complete Jade's collection of Spice Girls CDs as she mentioned that was the only one she didn't own.
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30th June 2020, 01:20 PM
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Tim the Con Artist
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Last CD single I think was The Saturdays' All Fired Up in 2011, cassette was something like 5ive Got The Feeling. But my last vinyl single was a picture disc of ABBA's Voulez Vous released last year.
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30th June 2020, 01:39 PM
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I think mine was probably a Freya Ridings single last year. I own more than 500 CD singles but need to go through them and give some away because I really need the space back.
I haven't bought a cassette single since the early 00s, and even then I probably bought less than 20 of those in my whole life, although the first single I ever bought was a cassette (Ace of Base - Always Have, Always Will). I was disappointed when I went on my annual trip to Saturn in Germany last year and the CD singles wall had all but disappeared. They were a good source of getting quite a lot CD singles that weren't issued here up to 2017, possibly later. |
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30th June 2020, 01:52 PM
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OH I've just realised the title says 'single', not album. I purchased Band Aid 20 in 2004 and I don't think I have purchased a CD single since.
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30th June 2020, 02:13 PM
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I never really bought a CD single during the peak of the format and cassingles were declining by the time I started going to my now closed down local HMV at around 2008/2009 for CDs, but I have bought a handful from some charity shops over the past five years. My most recent being Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor.
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30th June 2020, 08:25 PM
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I think the last one was George Michael December Song which was in special PostCard form. I also purchased some Xmas cd singles like the Justice Collective and Band Aid 30 around 2014!
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30th June 2020, 09:23 PM
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BuzzJack Enthusiast
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My sister and I once bought James Arthur Impossible from Netto
 I vividly remember it came with a godawful cover of Sexy and I Know it. |
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1st July 2020, 08:40 AM
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 Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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Cassingle was probably Louise's "Naked" on 1996 and CD single was probably Rage against the machine's "Killing in the name" to complete my collection of noughties No 1's.
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3rd July 2020, 02:17 PM
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BuzzJack Gold Member
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Band Aid 20
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3rd July 2020, 02:26 PM
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I think it was Adele “Skyfall” which was October 2012. I have hundreds from the 2000s when I used to buy my personal chart number 1 each week, some of them I think are quite rare now like MGMT's “Time To Pretend” (which only charted at No.54 initially, then boosted on download sales) and Ou Est Le Swimming Pool's “Dance The Way I Feel”. I think 2009 was the last year that I bought them regularly and like others here I used to enjoy visiting the flagship HMV store in Oxford Street to browse the catalogue racks.
The Zavvi (now HMV) still had a pretty big selection of smaller release CD Singles in 2008 but then moved to only the bigger releases and eventually the charity ones. I think the saving on plastic for those jewel cases is for the best really. It was only a stop gap for me while digital quality caught up. |
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3rd July 2020, 06:15 PM
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Hate to say it was probably James Arthur’s “Impossible” lol. Last non-X Factor single was Taylor Swift’s “Mine” in HMV in 2010. I always got CDs in Woolworth’s when I was a kid and have like 2 boxes full of singles in my room, which surprises people cause I’m (almost) 20. Really miss those days!
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6th July 2020, 02:52 AM
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The horrors persist, but so do I
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Band Aid 30 for me!
I honestly went my entire childhood never knowing what a CD single was. Since then I could count on one hand the number of times I saw one in a store. I would buy it solely for the novelty of purchasing a CD single, although in this case I bought it for charity too
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6th July 2020, 01:45 PM
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Only last week The Rolling Stones Living In A Ghost Town
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6th July 2020, 04:09 PM
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I think it would have been a Robyn single in 2007. I definitely bought With Every Heartbeat and I think I may have bought Handle Me also. That was pretty rare for the time anyway though, it was the first single I’d bought in years on a physical format.
I don’t know my last cassette but it would probably have been early 1993 sort of time. I don’t buy vinyl singles very often unless they’re part of a bundle. Notable exception was the reissue last year of Music Sounds Better With You. |
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9th July 2020, 07:21 PM
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BuzzJack Climber
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I think it was I'll Be OK by McFly. I rarely bought CD singles and never bought a cassette - I usually just taped songs from the radio.
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9th July 2020, 07:33 PM
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BuzzJack Climber
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The last 7 inch vinyl I bought was(don't laugh!!🙈) Saviour's Day by Cliff Richard in December 1990 (that year's Christmas No.1). I'm racking my brain for last cassette single but it could've been More Than Words by Extreme in 1991. I really wasn't a frequent singles buyer. My last CD single was Million Dollar Bill by Whitney Houston in 2009 (only cos I was/am a huge Whitney fan). I'm probably committing blasphemy on this forum by admitting I've never purchased a digital download single! I do love music and the charts but have no need to purchase such music myself if I can stream it for free.
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9th July 2020, 09:10 PM
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BuzzJack Platinum Member
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Can’t remember the last single I purchased on CD, But the last album I purchased on CD was The Fame IIRC.
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4th August 2020, 07:46 AM
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BuzzJack Enthusiast
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The last CD I bought was Wannabe by Spice Girls in 1996
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4th August 2020, 03:12 PM
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BuzzJack Climber
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I have never bought a CD or cassette single.
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